Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Nintento 3-DEES Fruit Snacks - Dollar General : Cherry Hill, NJ

Nintento 3-DEES Fruit Snacks - Dollar General : Cherry Hill, NJ

Remember THESE sweet-tart-like Nintendo candies? Well there are 3-D gummy ones too!

The package design is a bright Mario-red with large images of
Nintendo characters. Overall, the design focuses on the characters and
not the candy, which is typical for a novelty product. People are buying
this because it’s Nintendo, not necessarily for the candy or it’s
flavor.
Ignore the packaging, just look at these gummy shapes! The figures
are surprisingly detailed and they can even stand up on their own! (Which is great for photos.)

There are 4 character shapes:

Mario

Yoshi

DK

Diddy Kong

None of the female characters are represented! Which stinks, but I understand that having more character shapes would have been expensive. (Especially for candy molds this detailed.)

These gummies come in 4 flavors:

Strawberry - (pinkish) smells a lot like apple juice with a hint of strawberry. Overall this tastes like a strawberry flavored applesauce.

Blueberry - (Red) smells very faintly of
blueberries. The flavor is mild with some authentic blueberry notes, but
it has a lot of apple juice flavoring like the Strawberry.

Orange - (orange) smells sweet, more like a
mandarin orange. The flavor is just like the orange gelatin that is
inside prepackaged mandarin orange fruit cups. (This is the only flavor that does not have any apple notes.)

Apple - (yellow-ish) has a really weak
smell, I couldn’t tell what it was based on smell alone. As far as
taste, it’s like I just had a spoonful of apple juice concentrate. The
finish is slightly more like an artificial green apple, but the overall
flavoring is definitely apple juice.

Although the flavors were apple-heavy, they were pretty enjoyable. What really stood out
to me was the texture. The bite wasn’t like a traditional gummy bear,
it’s more like a fruit pastille with a soft and bouncy chew.

I really enjoyed the shapes and textures, and I can actually see myself buying these again in the future.